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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






2. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






3. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






4. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






5. A strong pause within a line.






6. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






7. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






8. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






9. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






10. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






11. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






12. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






13. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






14. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






15. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






16. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






17. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






18. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






19. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






20. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






21. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






22. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






23. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






24. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






25. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






26. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






27. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






28. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






29. A short saying with a moral.






30. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






31. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






32. A three-line stanza.






33. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






34. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






35. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






36. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






37. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






38. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






39. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






40. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






41. The selection of words in a literary work.






42. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






43. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






44. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






45. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






46. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






47. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






48. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






49. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






50. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.